"When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that."

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Source : David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.27, Vintage

David Mamet

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“I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.”

Source : "Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano on Going Method and The Stanford Prison Experiment". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. July 20, 2015.
“All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.”
“If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.”

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“I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.”
“I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.”
“As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.”
“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.”

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“Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.”

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